I can not believe. Enrique yous and your policies reforms just tend to set the market and faloow orthodox, tah menas not industria policy. Mexico has poverty, corrupcio because of yo and yor political party.

Mexico has been advancing in leaps and bounds for most of the recent history, and as much as i like connectivity to be improved and raising education standards supported, I also think that we will not be able to "reach our full potential" as long as corruption runs rampant (Just see the case of the State of Veracruz last Governor) and the rule of law is applied discretionarily at best.

This idea of a fourth industrial revolution seems from where I sit a abstract dream of elites that have lost any sense of reality. The current form of capitalism has over and over shown that the system doesn't work. It has only created tremendous amounts of inequality around the world; it has created the lack of demand that is tearing the world apart; it has not created enough jobs throughout the world and many of the jobs it has created don't pay high enough wages both in the developed and underdeveloped countries to avoid poverty and allow for demand to increase (the majority of Chinese who work in all those factories can't afford the stuff they export) ; but it has polluted our environments and caused global warming that is now playing havoc with our weather systems. And if allowed to continue on it's marry way will destroy our civilization. It is admirable to want to educate our newer generations but they need a world not corrupted by greed and money interests otherwise you are only educating our future revolutionaries.

The President has listed important and appropriate approaches to Mexican development, but little of this has much to do with the Third, let alone the Fourth "Industrial Revolutions". (Rifkin, who defined the 3rd, denies the 4th anyway.)

Technology is not first and foremost a business - it is applied physics, a way of engineering some defined outcome. By clearly recognizing and progressively applying digital technologies directly to the benefit of the Mexican people who would participate in the extreme efficiency and integrity such an information culture can provide by connecting and modeling the full spectrum of human activities and outcomes, Mexico could make a real contribution on an international scale, but only if it's approach is very clearly conceived and intentionally designed.

Guadalajara has been selected "as the site for the Ciudad Creativa Digital, a smart-city development project. The CCD is expected to advance the country’s leadership position in media by using technology to create a socially integrated urban environment that can attract those working in advertising, gaming, movies, television, and related fields." (See: http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-focus/technology-topic/guadalajara-smart-city-of-the-near-future).

I will be visiting this project soon, and hope to be able to report that it's vision is as clear and animating as the new generations of video screens permit, and that the same infrastructure can support all manner of consequential new services and benefits for the log-suffering Mexican poeple.

At least 2 critical items are not mentioned by Mr. Peña Nieto that I believe are crucial for Mexico's economy:
1. Mexico shows little advance in rule of law and fight against corruption (as Humberto Moreira's recent arrest in Spain evidences). The costs associated with this is tremendous and particularly critical for micro and small businesses and to most vulnerable regions in Oaxaca, Guerrero, Michoacán and a few other states
2. Mexico's tax authority (SAT) acts more like a mafia racketeer charged with extracting wealth from businesses than a government authority. Entrepreneurs today are forced to wait years for the SAT to give back VAT that it should have never collected in the first place. This inefficiency (that in effect uses entrepreneurs to finance government expenditures) strips businesses of vital cash for growth.
I urge Mr. Peña to redouble efforts on these 2 vital items

New Comment

Pin comment to this paragraph

After posting your comment, you’ll have a ten-minute window to make any edits. Please note that we moderate comments to ensure the conversation remains topically relevant. We appreciate well-informed comments and welcome your criticism and insight. Please be civil and avoid name-calling and ad hominem remarks.

Log in/Register

Please log in or register to continue. Registration is free and requires only your email address.

Log in

Register

Emailrequired

PasswordrequiredRemember me?

Please enter your email address and click on the reset-password button. If your email exists in our system, we'll send you an email with a link to reset your password. Please note that the link will expire twenty-four hours after the email is sent. If you can't find this email, please check your spam folder.